Author Archives: Dwardus
Red Dead Redemption
Today I checked up on how Rockstar Games’ first rural open-world adventure game “Red Dead Redemption” was going (well it’s out May 21st!) and the graphics look spiffing. I was hoping for this sort of game, it’s like “Gun” (which I really enjoyed) but from the looks of it way way bigger and more detailed, with miles and miles of open country.
Doctor Who: Series 5 Preview – BBC One
On the 3rd April 2010 we’ll see a brand new Doctor, brand new writer and a brand new logo (audible groans). I hope it’ll be OK, like I hoped it’d still be OK when I first saw Tennant’s manic grin and it was. Of course it helped that after coming out of a coma in his first full-length episode he quoted the Lion King and kicked an arse/skull-faced alien loon into oblivion.
The Deal (2003)
I was having a look at the new film in the so-called “Blair trilogy” comprising of The Deal, The Queen and The Special Relationship (2010), which’ll hit cinemas sometime this year (yes, that was vague). Anyway, you can watch The Deal on Youtube, or easier still, by playing the parts below. Well worth a watch in my opinion, for me it’s a bit of a history lesson in political events that quite went over my head because at the time I was too wee to care about that sort of thing.
The Death of Bunny Munro (2009)
The Death of Bunny Munro is Nick Cave’s second novel following his unrelated 1989 début book “And the Ass Saw the Angel” (which, god-willing, is on its way through the post as we speak). You may need a strong stomach to digest this book, but if you’ve read Trainspotting and/or Porno by Irvin Welsh, you should be desensitized enough to get through it just fine. Bunny Munro’s brilliance comes with Cave’s descriptive genius – if you’ve heard his music it should be quite easy to imagine the fine arrangement of words Cave has for us here. It’s a moving and in places terrifyingly funny book (I caught myself guiltily “LOL”ing at some of the filthier portions more than once).
